JSngry

JAZZ was a very good magazine.

Any of them, really. I really like how he brings a Gillespie aura in to connect things, to bring the older into the mower (doc). But for staters, try Other Planes Of There.

Surprise!

Walter Miller.

In television, blame the viewers. In government, blame the voters. In music, blame the audience. Or in everything, blame a failure of a collective imagination. Just:

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Hard to believe this thread is almost 40 years old!

Paul Bley, pretty much about it imp. There's different, bit, uh....

I have learned to tell the difference between what a record sounds like and what music really is. Learned...it was a process, but with bird, I only hear air-shots for a few years...by then, the studio dates often seemed anticlimactic. I got over that too. It was also a process.

1972-74 were the label's years of most activity. Then, as I understand, a combination of various business factors brought a to a decelerating halt. But it was great while it lasted.

A pro knows how to do anything while smoking.

and Jazz is just now figuring this out, being about 35 or so years behind the times being its cultural norm for the last 45+ years. Actually, I remember calling this out a decade or more ago on this board and getting scoffed at about its importance, not real music, no creativity, the usual. Cheapens the music, ALL that. Opinion stands still, time moves on, and here we all are. Memes are the new essay.

It's a fair question to ask how much control the artists had once the label went out of business. Some got their masters back, some didn't, and so it goes. And maybe some of the various reissues have been legit. As far as what got recorded, though, yes, a milestone, and cause for a true and deep celebration. All things considered, a major, if not long-lasting, milestone.

Joey Bonnacinni - It's Time For Icing!!!

Been listening to this one for three days now...so much there, so many other planes there Walter Miller...has anybody ever heard what to me is obvious, namely that this guy is bringing Dizzy Gillespie into the Ra Music?. Talk about other places of THERE...

Lois Fallentine - Bakin' a Cake for Two

This is the only one I really like: I'll recommend it without qualification. The others....pick one. You will hear music that the "jazz purists" scorned for all the same reasons they put on Kenny G, only you will hear that there is a real difference between the two. Howard was kind of mentored by Grover, so...the best "smooth jazz" definitely has Black undertones/undertones/everywheretones...Howard's successful albums were no exception. By his own admission, he was not a "serious jazz player", but he wanted to play music that touched on the jazz ethos because he felt an affinity for it, wanted to be there, in terms of spirit and soul. You can judge for yourself how well he succeeded, but I give him full props for knowing himself and playing himself. And after he died and Kenny G took over as Smooth Soprano Hero...you know what they say about you don't miss your water.... I guess, try this one: https://www.discogs.com/master/1475342-George-Howard-The-Very-Best-Of-George-Howard

It's worthy of whatever the market will give it. That's how the market works.

And this is how jazz is going to survive in the future mass cultural consciousness, imo. "Memes", if you will, samples that get dropped into things that the really curious people will ferret out. More people do that than you might think!

Yeah, I'm really not getting the complaints about sound quality on this release...maybe a bumpy patch or two along the way, but nothing prolonged. and if you have gone deep with Bird, you know there's sea to shining sea examples of FAR worse than this.

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Kenny G stole the blessing and then extincted it. I'm not sure how conscious of this he really was, but I don't know that he cared/cares. He's struck me as the kind of guy who just does what he does because he's just that kind of guy. But lookie here, two words - George Howard. If you ever listen to Kenny G once, you have a cosmic obligation to listen to George Howard twice.